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When Jacy and Olive are not making beautiful bedchamber music together. Jacy is a gaga, gee-whiz tourist-about-London: "So this was the London bobby!" . . . " 'I am present.' said Jacy happily, 'at the reopening of the Covent Garden Opera House in nineteen forty-six . . .' " Somewhere along the line, Jacy discovers that the secret of English greatness is "continuity." To do his bit for continuity, Jacy agrees to help the Floristers reopen the historic old family theater with a hands-across-the-sea play about Pocahontas and John Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old-Fashioned Abandon | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

Steve Gottlieb bowed to Price Potter at five, 6-3, 6-2, while Dan Mayers extended Gee to three sets before losing in the number six match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Presbyterian Tennis Squad Beats Varsity for Third Time, 7-2 | 4/21/1955 | See Source »

...Once, during the production of Fantasia, Walt sat through a screening of the centaur sequence set to Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. When it was over he turned to one of his assistants and said earnestly: "Gee! This'll make Beethoven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Father Goose | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

Winchell recalled that later, inside the caucus room, when he looked at what he had been handed, he turned to other newsmen at the press table and said, "Gee, look what I have." Although he insisted that he could not recall who gave it to him, he was dead sure he never let anyone else read it. Instead, he went to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who warned Winchell that if he printed the document the FBI would be obliged to arrest him. About eight or ten days later, Winchell testified, he burned the document and flushed it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who, Me? | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

Lockheed Aircraft Co. last week took some of the wraps off its new entry in the lightweight jet plane race. Called the XF-104 by the Air Force and the "Gee-Whizzer" by Lockheed, the new ship is a small, relatively simple day fighter designed to win local air superiority over the battlefield. Its weight is only about 14,000 Ibs. combat-loaded v. 18,000 for North American's F-86D, but it packs a hefty Curtiss-Wright J-65 engine, blasting out more than 7,200 Ibs. of thrust. The speed is secret. Officially, the Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Gee-Whizzer | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

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